The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1887-10-02

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suffers severely from bronchitis. he has never
addressed great outdoor meetings, but IL q
convincing platform speaker. tho merit In his
speeches consisting wholly in tho care and
thoroughness Of their preparation and the
clearness with which he presents brief upon
any question he has investigated. He has 4
decided Irish accent ~
Mr. Gray is Q conspicuous living witness 10
the determination OF Irishmen 10 20 on . LITTLE
faster toward national Independence than
many OF the most faithful believed to be
practicable or prudent. He Is also aconvert 10
the leadership Of Charles Stewart Pafnell.
whom he declined to accept until that chief
had been severely tried and found able and
true under all tests, public and private.
lin after his death erected tho fine monumental
statue which stands In OOonnell street, half
way between Nelson's Pillar and the O'Connell
Bridge, was an intimate friend Of O'Connell.
By inheritance he was an Orangemsn, and had
como from Ulster stock sent down into Con-
naught in the interest Of brutal sectarianism.
In Trinity College no was thrown into the COM
pany Of the revolutionary poet, Thomas Davis,
and the father Of John Dillon. When very
young man, early distinguished In medicine
and mechanical science. he purchased the
Freeman's Journal then Q lansuishing publica-
ton without positive principles and gave the
dous energy By the sincerity and zeal
which he impaired to It. He became
one Of the most active promoters OF the
repeal agitation. Leaving oratort 70 mon
having greater gifts for II. he. organized the
people and established courts Tor the ndjudi-
cation OF land and other questions, indepen.
IDENTIFY Of the do jure Government His brother.
Wilson Gray. went to America and to Australia
In the interest Of the movement, and died o
few years ago on the judicial bench Of New
Zealand. Another brother. William. became
member OF the American bar. Dr.. Gray was
arrested with O'Connell for sedition and shared
his imprisonment. After o. onnell's death DR..
Gray devoted himself to the sanitary affairs Of
Dublin. and was the founder Of its system OF
water works.
TWAS not strange that Edmund Dwyer Gray
should be slow to accept new and dangerous
gospel In Irish politics. He had seen the most
brilliant intellects Of ireland fail 10 achieve
anything by force. and his fathsr's experience
led him TO believe that, 80 far az agitation is
be IN eana Iona Is ses
gave the Government 20 concern. He had
ins and heroic but futile eforts 81 the Fsnisns
to
how little that was no student Of Irish history
peeds 70 be told. The land question he had
ton Of the Tenant Right fOasue, and the re-
sss, 81 bas tSss h ne as
serfs He had little sround hsfaiere. . Tor sd
voeatina either resolution or aEitation.-
hS soabed tho eG naoaa pass
IS much 70 record things az they were going
had found the Neenan's .Josanai under bis
cautious management rtse from puny daily,
D %l4dH a s's ha 1 World p SfR
many. He is ct heart man OF peace and con-
sRa 81 nsw p2Rl
ples and secondly, because he SAW no evil
sspSs ast h hs e s%s was sa s hos
he bSeame member in iS77., Whom The Dues
30 settled. apd the party met "a Dublin. Nj;
against M. fsrneli. When tie Iaad tssss eS
Ssd taken place In London OF fimbaosoo.' But
The attitude Of neutralitv whieh the leading
the Land League misht Ssye been toisrabls
casion., Although the platform Of the League
on the land question was peasant prSrristPry
was really 70 be fought between the people
ssSa %ss on Inc the
that would nsykts9ly lead With pFobsby 81
Clergy. too, were dubious and iufsWaSm where
as mot 70 NJ sS,
objects apd rash metfoda Hs continued to
Sesrsen sH s Leaders siS nom
bso9y az II ether O. the
Itself; When Biz John Gray was conducting
the E,eemqn's Journal forty years ago as No
conservative, although the Government found
It necessary to Jail him. The young mon, Da-
and their associates In the Young Ireland par:
" ehafed under the restraint OF Gray and
O'Connell and founded a weekly Of their own.
called The Nation, to spur the people, for
prayer and more muscular attempt for liberty.
Such vas their temper that Up 4 short time It
exceeded all its contemporaries in popularity.
as II surpassed them all N splendor ard Intel:
lectual resource. When Parnoll and Eean and
Biggar found that the Nssg,ag . journal would
not move with the country In the Land League,
and put William 0'Brisn. who hEd been d sub
altern OF Dyyer Gray. at Its head That Gray
was rs patriotic or as honest as any OF them
not man Of the party doubted
:, Before another year had passed there were
seeing The full scope OF the Land League move
mont Its capacious columns oyernowed with
sienifcance It would have been folly or recre-
a anSy mot a e shs ADMIT Ne Graz SsSOSaised HE
the swim. " anytSina ware NEEDED % Coz
yince BIN that the m0yeNent Was Hgeaisttbla